“I define empathy as the ability to put yourself in somebody else’s shoes and to understand and connect with what they are feeling - to feel what they’re feeling. You first have to understand the world as they see it through their eyes.”

Good listeners listen to what people say, and great listeners notice what people don’t say. When you know the neuroscience of listening, you realize that people can think up to nine times faster than they can speak. So the first thing they say is probably between ten and fourteen percent of what they are thinking.

“Everybody in one way or another struggles with, looks forward to, is challenged by discovering who they are.”

"We've always gone to the wilderness and sought perspective in the less familiar places."

“The future pulls us out of the past, and pulls toward the dream, and what’s possible.”

“Really going into purpose work, that takes courage. Leadership is courageous. Leadership – real leadership, authentic, purpose-focused leadership – is not for wimps. It takes courage. You will have to stand up. You will have to face the dragon.”

“If you can, and I think you probably can, see yourself as part of something bigger than yourself.”

“I tell everybody on the team, I expect you to fail at times. In fact, if you’re not failing once in a while, you’re not pushing yourself far enough.”

“I would encourage people to think about this concept of playgrounds and how they can get up every day and turn a practice into a habit into a system that allows them to have fun in their lives.”

"Where purpose really takes hold is when it's part of a real belief system, a system of values, a real point of view, a world view where there's a real vision for how the world should be."

“I found that what’s most important in life is connection and how we connect with life, because, after all, life isn’t about us; we’re about life.”

“What I realized, which is so powerful, is that people burn so much stress all day long on these micro decisions. And by picking a high-level powerful goal, they can use that as a navigating light as to all of these little micro decisions they make all day long.”